Linux: Find User Files

How do I find out all files owned by a user called tom or jerry under UNIX / Linux / BSD / OS X operating systems? Use the find command as follows to find all files owned by a user called tom, in /home (open terminal and type the command):

find/home -user tom
find/home -user jerry

To find all files in the /sales directory owned by the vip group, enter:

find/sales -group vip

You can restrict your search to *.c (all c files only) for user tom as follows: